Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the Agile programming philosophy? I mean, not the pretending to listen, but the actual listening part.
As a mid-thirty year old, desperately trying to avoid management of any type (particularly the paper trail type) so I can keep programming, this has been the crux of my job to date. And I absolutely love it. I love rocking up to some new professorial chamber when they've heard of the HPC group I work for and the services we provide, sitting down and letting them rattle on about something they want simulated that they've never had, nor fully understood, the resources for. Essentially you repeat everything back to them, trying carefully to use *their* language and introducing some basic language of my own (as it generally will become a long lasting relationship and a common language is essential). The goal is not to try and impress them with your knowledge (as I suspect it would be pretty easy for them to turn the tables) but to develop the trust and understanding.
It's my job to then go back to my newbs/grunts/minions (who I hand pick from a class I teach in Mathematical Sciences - only reason for continuing this one semester per two year position is for recruitment purposes) and get them to code up the basic crap I don't want to do... keeping the fun, typically large scale algorithmic, stuff for myself (occasionally dangling the carrot and getting one of them to do it).
But then again. I work on a campus, as a professional, but I also teach a visualisation subject to the school of mathematical sciences.
One of the main reason why I still do the teaching is because I can hand pick those students that I want to work with me in the HPC space. I've noticed that it is the smarter of the group that end up being the 'nicer' ones and more down to earth.
That old saying of 'empty vessels make the most noise' could never be truer.
An elaborate fake perhaps, but still a fake. Yes, the frame is made from trees from the period but the only difference between the canvas and existing paintings is that this time the man has a beard and features painted in a different light.
Even a moderate understudy of art could have produced this.
My old man writes maths textbooks and then sells them to high schools as they closely match the curriculum.
He used to use a publisher (for the first book) but ditched them because after selling 35 000, he received about AU$6000. It wasn't worth the time invested in creating the material.
Then he used an Australian book binder and it would cost around AU$6 per book to produce, but given that he would sell them for AU$29.95 things were much better. Problem was that the book binder was not consistent with either timing on delivery or quality (still leagues ahead of the publisher). Mail outs to promote the material would only cost AU$0.60 per school.
He now out sources to Singapore. The books arrive on time and each copy is in identical condition. That costs AU$4.20 per book (soft-cover, colour).
He is now looking into buying a book-binder himself.
Everybody I work with has this attitude. Even people in different departments. They tell you that there is something personal going on and all attitudes immediately change.
To me that means something is wrong with the standards. If your major websites (hitwise) do not conform then something is wrong. If all new graduates are learning the standards then what are they learning and what will things look like as a result in 5, 10 or 50 years time?
Now, there are snobs that'll say you learn more at the big learning institutes, but the content they produce will only be a drop in the ocean (beit a particularly nutritious drop).
Is it that programming for the web is like the English language... there are rules but then there are the exceptions. Do these exceptions need to be clearly labeled at the bottom of the RFCs or other spec analysis streams?
I'll crawl back under my rock now. Most of this is probably obvious to those who do it on a regular basis.
I find that absolutely stunning! Here we have a billion dollar company that prides itself on software and it cannot even get its core bread-and-butter gig correct.
I'm no web developer but how can google.com be on that list as well? It is one of the simplest websites around. A text field, few links and a bit of javascript.
How the hell can a web browser, that let's face it, is probably going to be the dominant web browser, not render that.
No wonder the general population get pissed of with 'the computer's not working again'. These days I tell them that I don't know Windows. I'm going to have to start walking around with a Ubuntu live on USB.
There are 1 863 other people from the continental USA of Caucasian decent whom also list the combination of lesbian porn, stab-a-knife-blade-between-fingers game and have played ultimate frisbee.
There is a 67% chance you have a mortgage, probably with provider X given the regression including active usage of Internet comment system participation which will lead to a probability of 0.9756 that you have greater than $14 000 cash in a bank account.
Given this combination, you are susceptible to pleas of help from Y charity for amounts requesting not greater than $135.00
I see that there is nothing wrong with trying to get a better deal.
In western culture, we have become used to accepting the price tag as is. Now that we've become exposed to other cultures that question the price tag, we've woken up and realised that everything is (and should be) negotiable. If companies (small or large) have a problem with that, then that is their problem. In the same way that the RIAA need to update their business models, so do these companies.
Western countries have become stupidly expensive to live in because companies/individuals have been charging whatever they want and the community has been taking it at face value. Now that we are questioning, they are trying to get us to stop.
I hope the researchers take care with this and treat it with respect.
The last thing we need is for golden staph to be in the presence of this algeferin outside the therapeutic window and modify itself accordingly. GS is bad enough already, the last thing we (humans) want is for it modify itself off some oceanic super goo.
Me and a work mate have a battle every couple of months with Robocode. Winner gets bragging rights.
It is as difficult or as easy as you want to make it. There are also world wide comps with 256 byte codes. Makes you also brush up on your high school trig. Awesome fun.
If the federal government doesn't spend money on education, health and other public infrastructure, what do you think happens? The State governments and the private sector has to loan money to pay for those services. That is why you look at the National Debt. It encompasses everything - total in / total out.
He's not sending us into debt, we're already in debt! It's amazing how the coalition fed us the bullshit of historical consecutive surpluses and 'fiscal conservatism' but managed to DOUBLE the national debt to a trillion dollars in ten years.
This is after record taxation rates on the population (remember that the GST was meant to get rid of various taxes... no wonder he promised never to move the GST to 11%... Costello never needed to. How much after PAYG tax do you then end up paying on more taxes? Petrol? Milk? Bought a house in the last ten years? How much tax do you pay?) and a mining industry that brought in such huge amounts of cash from China and other developing nations but somehow the tax gained from that never found its way towards infrastructure or reducing the national debt.
They are all the masters of spin. Feed with one hand and rob with the other.
The filtering software was a first step that was deemed to be inadequate. They just got booted out before they could initiate secondary protocol.
Apologies for getting an Insightful mod on my previous post. It never should have.
Fuck that is one of the most idiotic things I've read today (I won't go 'ever'). Are you that much of an opportunist? You've never alluded to this in earlier posts.
It is so dumb that you sound like one of those people who watch and believe 'Today Tonight'
Kevin caused the financial crises, eh? The coalition never had plans for filtering? This is Australia... nobody else gives a fuck... and I like it that way.
Or, just put the stream of the conferenced person just below/above and centred on the camera. I've operated Access Grid a couple of times and this is the first thing that I do.
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I cannot wait to try that exiftool. I've got major data problems since getting a Nikon D60 two years ago.
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Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the Agile programming philosophy? I mean, not the pretending to listen, but the actual listening part.
As a mid-thirty year old, desperately trying to avoid management of any type (particularly the paper trail type) so I can keep programming, this has been the crux of my job to date. And I absolutely love it. I love rocking up to some new professorial chamber when they've heard of the HPC group I work for and the services we provide, sitting down and letting them rattle on about something they want simulated that they've never had, nor fully understood, the resources for. Essentially you repeat everything back to them, trying carefully to use *their* language and introducing some basic language of my own (as it generally will become a long lasting relationship and a common language is essential). The goal is not to try and impress them with your knowledge (as I suspect it would be pretty easy for them to turn the tables) but to develop the trust and understanding.
It's my job to then go back to my newbs/grunts/minions (who I hand pick from a class I teach in Mathematical Sciences - only reason for continuing this one semester per two year position is for recruitment purposes) and get them to code up the basic crap I don't want to do ... keeping the fun, typically large scale algorithmic, stuff for myself (occasionally dangling the carrot and getting one of them to do it).
But then again. I work on a campus, as a professional, but I also teach a visualisation subject to the school of mathematical sciences.
One of the main reason why I still do the teaching is because I can hand pick those students that I want to work with me in the HPC space. I've noticed that it is the smarter of the group that end up being the 'nicer' ones and more down to earth.
That old saying of 'empty vessels make the most noise' could never be truer.
An elaborate fake perhaps, but still a fake. Yes, the frame is made from trees from the period but the only difference between the canvas and existing paintings is that this time the man has a beard and features painted in a different light.
Even a moderate understudy of art could have produced this.
Or, doth mine eyes deceive me?
I costs a little more per book than that.
My old man writes maths textbooks and then sells them to high schools as they closely match the curriculum.
He used to use a publisher (for the first book) but ditched them because after selling 35 000, he received about AU$6000. It wasn't worth the time invested in creating the material.
Then he used an Australian book binder and it would cost around AU$6 per book to produce, but given that he would sell them for AU$29.95 things were much better. Problem was that the book binder was not consistent with either timing on delivery or quality (still leagues ahead of the publisher). Mail outs to promote the material would only cost AU$0.60 per school.
He now out sources to Singapore. The books arrive on time and each copy is in identical condition. That costs AU$4.20 per book (soft-cover, colour).
He is now looking into buying a book-binder himself.
Wrapped up in the lint were also flecks of dead skin, fat, sweat and dust.
Man! I was eating breakfast!
Everybody I work with has this attitude. Even people in different departments. They tell you that there is something personal going on and all attitudes immediately change.
I'd not work with anybody else.
To me that means something is wrong with the standards. If your major websites (hitwise) do not conform then something is wrong. If all new graduates are learning the standards then what are they learning and what will things look like as a result in 5, 10 or 50 years time?
Now, there are snobs that'll say you learn more at the big learning institutes, but the content they produce will only be a drop in the ocean (beit a particularly nutritious drop).
Is it that programming for the web is like the English language ... there are rules but then there are the exceptions. Do these exceptions need to be clearly labeled at the bottom of the RFCs or other spec analysis streams?
I'll crawl back under my rock now. Most of this is probably obvious to those who do it on a regular basis.
Again, I'm not a web developer, but does that mean there is something 'wrong' with the standards?
Or, as I suspect, is it for a very good reason ... making all browsers able to view, optimisation technique, etc.
Dunno. I guess I'll stay out of what I don't know.
I find that absolutely stunning! Here we have a billion dollar company that prides itself on software and it cannot even get its core bread-and-butter gig correct.
It boggles my mind.
I'm no web developer but how can google.com be on that list as well? It is one of the simplest websites around. A text field, few links and a bit of javascript.
How the hell can a web browser, that let's face it, is probably going to be the dominant web browser, not render that.
No wonder the general population get pissed of with 'the computer's not working again'. These days I tell them that I don't know Windows. I'm going to have to start walking around with a Ubuntu live on USB.
Just the information I was looking for.
There are 1 863 other people from the continental USA of Caucasian decent whom also list the combination of lesbian porn, stab-a-knife-blade-between-fingers game and have played ultimate frisbee.
There is a 67% chance you have a mortgage, probably with provider X given the regression including active usage of Internet comment system participation which will lead to a probability of 0.9756 that you have greater than $14 000 cash in a bank account.
Given this combination, you are susceptible to pleas of help from Y charity for amounts requesting not greater than $135.00
Pay-dirt.
I see that there is nothing wrong with trying to get a better deal.
In western culture, we have become used to accepting the price tag as is. Now that we've become exposed to other cultures that question the price tag, we've woken up and realised that everything is (and should be) negotiable. If companies (small or large) have a problem with that, then that is their problem. In the same way that the RIAA need to update their business models, so do these companies.
Western countries have become stupidly expensive to live in because companies/individuals have been charging whatever they want and the community has been taking it at face value. Now that we are questioning, they are trying to get us to stop.
I hope the researchers take care with this and treat it with respect.
The last thing we need is for golden staph to be in the presence of this algeferin outside the therapeutic window and modify itself accordingly. GS is bad enough already, the last thing we (humans) want is for it modify itself off some oceanic super goo.
Me and a work mate have a battle every couple of months with Robocode. Winner gets bragging rights.
It is as difficult or as easy as you want to make it. There are also world wide comps with 256 byte codes. Makes you also brush up on your high school trig. Awesome fun.
I agree. I was 'meh' about it.
I was expecting something new, innovative and cool. All I got was some nerd trying to sell some snake oil.
The audience was what was taking my attention. Where do they find these people?
I bet those little suckers also drain the battery.
I hope they recharge them wirelessly, otherwise they will end up failing in the market if you have to plug each one into a recharger.
If the federal government doesn't spend money on education, health and other public infrastructure, what do you think happens? The State governments and the private sector has to loan money to pay for those services. That is why you look at the National Debt. It encompasses everything - total in / total out.
Like I said before, they are all masters of spin.
You made me check my facts ... I was wrong.
In 1996, the national debt was 298.8 Billion
In 2008, the nation debt was $1032 Billion!
The states didn't remove the taxes because the government didn't let the *full* money from the GST flow through to them.
He's not sending us into debt, we're already in debt! It's amazing how the coalition fed us the bullshit of historical consecutive surpluses and 'fiscal conservatism' but managed to DOUBLE the national debt to a trillion dollars in ten years.
This is after record taxation rates on the population (remember that the GST was meant to get rid of various taxes ... no wonder he promised never to move the GST to 11% ... Costello never needed to. How much after PAYG tax do you then end up paying on more taxes? Petrol? Milk? Bought a house in the last ten years? How much tax do you pay?) and a mining industry that brought in such huge amounts of cash from China and other developing nations but somehow the tax gained from that never found its way towards infrastructure or reducing the national debt.
They are all the masters of spin. Feed with one hand and rob with the other.
The filtering software was a first step that was deemed to be inadequate. They just got booted out before they could initiate secondary protocol.
Apologies for getting an Insightful mod on my previous post. It never should have.
For those who WTF'ed at the above ballad, this video will give a little insight to what it means to Australians
Bledisloe?
It's the only response we have to the New Zealand Haka.
Wow!
Fuck that is one of the most idiotic things I've read today (I won't go 'ever'). Are you that much of an opportunist? You've never alluded to this in earlier posts.
It is so dumb that you sound like one of those people who watch and believe 'Today Tonight'
Kevin caused the financial crises, eh? The coalition never had plans for filtering? This is Australia ... nobody else gives a fuck ... and I like it that way.
C'mon, you're smarter than this.
For batch work, yes I would agree with you. Up until there is more than a single user using the system. Then the OS has very much an impact.
Or, just put the stream of the conferenced person just below/above and centred on the camera. I've operated Access Grid a couple of times and this is the first thing that I do.